This volume seeks to lay the groundwork for readers who want to understand the general functions of loudspeaker enclosure systems and eventually experiment with their own designs. Written for design engineers and technicians, students, and intermediate-to-advanced acoustics enthusiasts, it presents a general theory of loudspeaker enclosure systems. Featuring illustrated and numerical examples, the book examines diverse developments in enclosure design, and studies the various types of enclosures as well as varying parameter values and performance optimisation. Topics examined include: the synthesis of vented systems; infinite-baffle and closed-box systems; electro-acoustical relations; and reflex response relationships.

With this book, anyone can become a speaker builder. You don't need an elaborate workshop, expensive analytical equipment, or sophisticted software. Learn the concepts you need or chhose any of the eleven tested and proven speaker designs included in the book. Contains all the information the speaker builder needs to design and build a first-rate system, one that surpasses higher-cost commercial products.

In this book, Geoff Hill demonstrates modern software and hardware being applied to the processes behind loudspeaker design and modelling. Modern computing power has progressed to the point that such analyses are now practical for any interested individual or small company. Loudspeaker Modelling and Design: A Practical Introduction examines the process from initial concept through specifications and theoretical simulations and onto detailed design. It demonstrates the processes of design and specification, by using detailed simulations of a loudspeaker driver; sufficient to give re-assurance that a design is practical and will perform as expected.This book brings together many different strands of modelling from electro-magnetic through to mechanical and acoustic, without getting bogged down in theoretical discussions and arguments. This practice-based book shows the techniques used in designing modern loudspeakers and transducers.